Yet how easy all would be for faith if man could but accustom himself
to see more than a mere word in the saying with which he has played for
more than a thousand years, that in God he lives and moves and has his
being. Then were faith in God one with his own eternal life, he would
see his own eternal life as belonging to that of God himself, and in
the advancement of his future above his present stage of life would
perceive only a loftier structure above a lower one in God, such as he
already has latent within him; he would comprehend the greater from the
lesser model, and in the union of both the whole, of which he is but a
part.
Perception in you dissolves, and memory ascends from it within you;
your whole life of intuition dissolves in God, and a higher existence
of recollection rises from it to God; and like memories in your mind,
so the spirits of the other world communicate within in the divine
mind. It is only one step above another on the same ladder which leads,
not to God, but upwards within Him, who in Himself is at once the base
and the summit. With that saying void of thought, how empty God was; in
its full significance, how rich He is!
Do you, then, know how the further spiritual life of perception is
possible? You know only that it is real; but it is only possible to a
soul. You can therefore, although ignorant how it is possible, easily
believe in the reality of a future for your whole soul within a higher
one; you must only believe that there is a higher soul, and that you
are it.
And again, how easy it would all be for faith, if man could habitually
see a truth in that further word, that God lives and moves and has
His being in all. Then it were not a dead, but, through God, a living
world, out of which man is building his future body and is thereby
creating a new abode within the dwelling place of God.
But when will this vitalizing faith become a living one?
He who makes it living will himself be made alive.